School nurse struggling with IVF is finally a mum after teacher asks to be surrogate

Lisa Williams (right) gave birth to baby Quinn after agreeing to be a surrogate for Katherine Bateson (left) (Picture: SWNS)

A school nurse who missed out on five chances of having a baby finally fulfilled her dream of being a mum when a teacher friend agreed to be her surrogate.

Surrogate mum Lisa Williams with baby Quinn. A school nurse who spent four years longing for a baby after multiple miscarriages and failed IVF cycles has finally become a mother after her friend agreed to be her surrogate. See SWNS story SWMDbaby. Katherine Bateson, 41, had endured four years of physical and emotional pain in an attempt to have a baby with her husband Alan. The couple spent four years going through IVF trying to become pregnant after marrying in 2017 and started trying for a baby at the beginning of 2018. But after tests showed some underlying health conditions they decided to go down the IVF route. With only two embryos left and having lost two babies through miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies they decided to try surrogacy and to their absolute joy were matched very quickly to a potential surrogate. But the couple faced even more heartache when the potential surrogate pulled out leaving them heartbroken at the thought of having to wait another year for a match. It wasn?t until friend and colleague Lisa Williams saw the heartache her friends were going through that she decided to help and offer to carry their child for them. After four years, four rounds of IVF, miscarriages and a failed surrogate the couple finally welcomed baby Quinn on March 12, this year weighing seven pounds and two ounces. — Teacher friend Lisa Williams agreed to act as a surrogate for the couple (Picture: Lisa Williams / SWNS)

Katherine, from south-east London, said: ‘We had done four rounds of IVF and fallen pregnant naturally once and that was a miscarriage, and then from the four rounds of IVF we had another miscarriage and then one ectopic pregnancy.

‘I just found it so hard and quite traumatising, the whole process and everything that comes with it.

‘It’s like one moment you’re really excited and doing the egg transfer and the anticipation of the two-week wait, and then to get the news you’re pregnant and something goes wrong, it is physically and mentally draining.’

Katherine added: ‘We were really nervous about the whole surrogacy route as obviously it’s not that well known about and often you have to sort of navigate it all yourself.

‘I know it’s a lot you’re asking of someone to do, but it was just awful and devastating and to think we might have to wait another six or 12 months, it was just like our life was on hold.

‘I was actually in my office when I got the call and Lisa had just walked in and I told her what had happened and was just crying.

Alan & Katherine Bateson with baby Quinn. A school nurse who spent four years longing for a baby after multiple miscarriages and failed IVF cycles has finally become a mother after her friend agreed to be her surrogate. See SWNS story SWMDbaby. Katherine Bateson, 41, had endured four years of physical and emotional pain in an attempt to have a baby with her husband Alan. The couple spent four years going through IVF trying to become pregnant after marrying in 2017 and started trying for a baby at the beginning of 2018. But after tests showed some underlying health conditions they decided to go down the IVF route. With only two embryos left and having lost two babies through miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies they decided to try surrogacy and to their absolute joy were matched very quickly to a potential surrogate. But the couple faced even more heartache when the potential surrogate pulled out leaving them heartbroken at the thought of having to wait another year for a match. It wasn?t until friend and colleague Lisa Williams saw the heartache her friends were going through that she decided to help and offer to carry their child for them. After four years, four rounds of IVF, miscarriages and a failed surrogate the couple finally welcomed baby Quinn on March 12, this year weighing seven pounds and two ounces. — Katherine and Alan Bateson were delighted to welcome their son in March (Picture: Katherine Bateson / SWNS)

‘She then took me out for dinner and offered to become our surrogate and it just went from there.

Surrogate mum Lisa Williams with her three children Grace Williams (12) Oliver Williams (15) and Zac Williams (9). A school nurse who spent four years longing for a baby after multiple miscarriages and failed IVF cycles has finally become a mother after her friend agreed to be her surrogate. See SWNS story SWMDbaby. Katherine Bateson, 41, had endured four years of physical and emotional pain in an attempt to have a baby with her husband Alan. The couple spent four years going through IVF trying to become pregnant after marrying in 2017 and started trying for a baby at the beginning of 2018. But after tests showed some underlying health conditions they decided to go down the IVF route. With only two embryos left and having lost two babies through miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies they decided to try surrogacy and to their absolute joy were matched very quickly to a potential surrogate. But the couple faced even more heartache when the potential surrogate pulled out leaving them heartbroken at the thought of having to wait another year for a match. It wasn?t until friend and colleague Lisa Williams saw the heartache her friends were going through that she decided to help and offer to carry their child for them. After four years, four rounds of IVF, miscarriages and a failed surrogate the couple finally welcomed baby Quinn on March 12, this year weighing seven pounds and two ounces. — Lisa has already has three children: Olivia, Oliver and Zac (Picture: Lisa Williams / SWNS)

‘But I have worked with Katherine’s husband for the last five years so I met her through him and we just struck up a friendship and got on really well, and I guess that’s when she opened up about their struggles.

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